{"id":10582,"date":"2014-02-25T02:54:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/?p=10582"},"modified":"2021-05-12T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T00:00:11","slug":"%e3%82%b6%e3%83%93%e3%83%bc%e3%83%8d%e3%83%bb%e3%83%86%e3%82%a3%e3%83%a2%e3%83%86%e3%82%aa%ef%bc%9a%e3%80%8c%e9%b3%a5%e3%81%ae%e7%b5%b5%e3%82%92%e6%8f%8f%e3%81%8f%e7%82%ba%e3%81%ab%e3%80%8d%e3%81%ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/en\/%e3%82%b6%e3%83%93%e3%83%bc%e3%83%8d%e3%83%bb%e3%83%86%e3%82%a3%e3%83%a2%e3%83%86%e3%82%aa%ef%bc%9a%e3%80%8c%e9%b3%a5%e3%81%ae%e7%b5%b5%e3%82%92%e6%8f%8f%e3%81%8f%e7%82%ba%e3%81%ab%e3%80%8d%e3%81%ab\/","title":{"rendered":"Last dharma talk during the Antaiji winter study period: Sabine Timoteo in the &#8220;cage&#8221;, February 25th 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i8zztbvPKRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>TO PAINT THE PORTRAIT OF A BIRD<\/p>\n<p>First paint a cage<br \/>\nwith an open door<br \/>\nthen paint<br \/>\nsomething pretty<br \/>\nsomething simple<br \/>\nsomething beautiful<br \/>\nsomething useful<br \/>\nfor the bird<br \/>\nthen place the canvas against a tree<br \/>\nin a garden<br \/>\nin a wood<br \/>\nor in a forest<br \/>\nhide behind the tree<br \/>\nwithout speaking<br \/>\nwithout moving&#8230;<br \/>\nSometimes the bird comes quickly<br \/>\nbut he can just as well spend long years<br \/>\nbefore deciding<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t get discouraged<br \/>\nwait<br \/>\nwait years if necessary<br \/>\nthe swiftness or slowness of the coming<br \/>\nof the bird having no rapport<br \/>\nwith the success of the picture<br \/>\nWhen the bird comes<br \/>\nif he comes<br \/>\nobserve the most profound silence<br \/>\nwait till the bird enters the cage<br \/>\nand when he has entered<br \/>\ngently close the door with a brush<br \/>\nthen<br \/>\npaint out all the bars one by one<br \/>\ntaking care not to touch any of the feathers of the bird<br \/>\nThen paint the portrait of the tree<br \/>\nchoosing the most beautiful of its branches<br \/>\nfor the bird<br \/>\npaint also the green foliage and the wind&#8217;s freshness<br \/>\nthe dust of the sun<br \/>\nand the noise of insects in the summer heat<br \/>\nand then wait for the bird to decide to sing<br \/>\nIf the bird doesn&#8217;t sing<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a bad sign<br \/>\na sign that the painting is bad<br \/>\nbut if he sings it&#8217;s a good sign<br \/>\na sign that you can sign<br \/>\nso then so gently you pull out<br \/>\none of the feathers of the bird<br \/>\nand you write yours name in a corner of the picture<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jacques Prevert, translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bmLMPgO35uw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TO PAINT THE PORTRAIT OF A BIRD First paint a cage with an open door then paint something pretty something simple something beautiful something useful for the bird then place the canvas against a tree in a garden in a wood or in a forest hide behind the tree without speaking without moving&#8230; Sometimes the &#8230; <a title=\"Last dharma talk during the Antaiji winter study period: Sabine Timoteo in the &#8220;cage&#8221;, February 25th 2014\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/en\/%e3%82%b6%e3%83%93%e3%83%bc%e3%83%8d%e3%83%bb%e3%83%86%e3%82%a3%e3%83%a2%e3%83%86%e3%82%aa%ef%bc%9a%e3%80%8c%e9%b3%a5%e3%81%ae%e7%b5%b5%e3%82%92%e6%8f%8f%e3%81%8f%e7%82%ba%e3%81%ab%e3%80%8d%e3%81%ab\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Last dharma talk during the Antaiji winter study period: Sabine Timoteo in the &#8220;cage&#8221;, February 25th 2014\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10582"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18975,"href":"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582\/revisions\/18975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}